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foreign

[fawr-in, for-] / ˈfɔr ɪn, ˈfɒr- /


ADJECTIVE
not belonging to the place or body in which found
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While American rail companies possess advanced AI tools, foreign competitors are moving aggressively to exploit structural advantages.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Beijing has long been Pyongyang's largest economic partner, with US and South Korean estimates indicating that China has accounted for almost all of North Korea's annual foreign trade in recent years.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Instead, he wants foreign investors to help build a domestic rare-earth industry capable of generating higher-value jobs and technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Beijing has long encouraged North Korea to pursue China's own model of Communist leadership: maintaining a one party rule while expanding markets, foreign investment and international trade.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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